Oregon’s on-time high school graduation rate rose 1% to 67% for the class of 2011.
Oregon’s on-time high school graduation rate rose 1% to 67% for the class of 2011.
Gov. John Kitzhaber called the 67 percent rate “unacceptable.”
Most of Oregon’s large and medium-size districts failed to get even 70 percent of the students who entered high school in fall 2007 to earn a diploma within four years.
High school dropouts are 50 percent more likely to be unemployed than people who earn a diploma and never go to college, and their annual earnings are dramatically lower — less than $22,000 on average in 2010 compared with $29,000 for those with a high school education, said Brenda Turner, occupational economist with the Oregon Employment Department.
Read more at OregonLive.com.
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